Vazha-Pshavela
| ვაჟა Vazha |
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Vazha in Chokha, by Alexander Roinashvili
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| Born | Luka Razikashvili 26 July 1861 Chargali, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire, now Georgia |
| Died | 10 July 1915 Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Resting place | Mtatsminda Pantheon |
| Occupation | Poet, short-story writer |
| Nationality | Georgian |
| Genre | epic, drama, poetry |
| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Notable works | "Host and Guest" "Snake eater" "Aluda Ketelauri" |
| Spouse | Tamar Didebashvili |
| Children |
Levan Tamar Gulkhan Vakhtang |
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Vazha-Pshavela (Georgian: ვაჟა-ფშაველა), simply referred to as Vazha (Georgian: ვაჟა) (26 July 1861 – 10 July 1915), is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili (Georgian: ლუკა რაზიკაშვილი), noted Georgian patriot and author of the highest calibre in the field of Georgian literature.
"Vazha-Pshavela" literally means "a son of Pshavians" in Georgian.
Vazha-Pshavela was born into a family of clergymen in the little village of Chargali, situated in the mountainous Pshavi province of Eastern Sakartvelo. He graduated from the Pedagogical Seminary in Gori 1882, where he associated closely with Georgian populists (Russian term narodniki). He then entered the faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University (Russia) in 1883, as a non-credit student, but returned to Georgia in 1884 due to financial constraints. Here he found employment as a teacher of the Georgian language. He also attained prominence as a famous representative of the National-Liberation movement of Georgia.
Vazha-Pshavela embarked on his literary career in the mid-1880s. In his works, he portrayed the everyday life and psychology of his contemporary Pshavs. Vazha-Pshavela is the author of many world-class literary works – 36 epics, about 400 poems ("Aluda Ketelauri", "Bakhtrioni", "Gogotur and Apshina", "Host and Guest", "Snake eater", "Eteri", "Mindia", etc.), plays, and stories, as well as literary criticism, journalism and scholarly articles of ethnographic interest. Even in his fiction he evokes the life of the Georgian highlander with a near-ethnographic precision and depicts an entire world of mythological concepts. In his poetry, the poet addresses the heroic past of his people and extols the struggle against enemies both external and internal. (poems A Wounded Snow Leopard (1890), A Letter of a Pshav Soldier to His Mother (1915), etc.).
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